[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#849077: Bug#849077: wpasupplicant: [Regression] Updating wpasupplicant makes not possible to connect to encrypted WiFi

[Andrew Shadura]

On 22/12/16 17:23, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless 
> LAN Controller (rev 01) using broadcom-sta-dkms to get the proprietary driver 
> (sadly the libre one hangs too much). Note: I've checked with both the testing 
> and sid versions of broadcom-sta-dkms and both fail in the same way.
> 
> I could not make the systemd override file, but stopping the service and 
> running it by hand gave me:
> 
> # /sbin/wpa_supplicant -d -t -u -s -O /run/wpa_supplicant
> 1482423134.657501: Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=8):
>      68 65 72 6d 69 6f 6e 65                           hermione        

> This log happened while trying quite a lot of times to connect.
> 
> As an interesting note: even if I was running wpa_supplicant "by hand", after 
> downgrading the package in order to be able to send this mail I had to reboot 
> the computer to make it work.
> 
> Of course feel free to send more more debugging tips as you need.

Sadly, that doesn't give much information to me. However, googling for
the exact error code together with the hardware led me to this:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1216302#p1216302

I don't know whether that makes sense or not, but could you please try that?

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew

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